“Never tease anything that wants to eat you. My name is April Tate and my blood is the new gold. Vampires and hybrids have overrun my world, once vibrant with life, but now a graveyard of death shrouded in shadows. I fight to survive; I fight for my mother and brother. The journey is full of turns that I am quite unprepared for. And I’m just hoping to make it to the next Vegas sunrise…”

In a post-apocalyptic world, a viral epidemic has wiped out most of the earth’s population, leaving behind few humans but untold numbers of mutated vampires. April is a seventeen-year-old girl who lives in the remains of Las Vegas one year after the outbreak. She has become a ferocious vampire killer and after her family is abducted, she goes searching for them. What she finds is a new breed of vampire, unlike any she has seen before. Unsure of whom she can trust, she discovers that her view of the world is not as black and white as she once thought, and she’s willing to bend the rules to rescue her family. But in trying to save them, she may only succeed in bringing her fragile world crashing down around her.

All That Counts is a novel about life and a man’s discovery about what is truly important in it.

Graham Wilson is a thirty-something recreational hockey player who decides to follow a long-held desire to become a goaltender.His transition is both comedic and inspiring as he seeks to challenge himself in the midst of a mundane life.Also on display is the curious paradox of the recreational game in American culture (i.e., it means everything, but it is only a game, but it is more than a game, but…).When his team’s regular goalie leaves, Graham steps unsteadily into the crease, causing conflict on a team that is used to winning.

Graham’s journey is a microcosm of life.Humor, inspiration, camaraderie, love and spite all make their appearances both on and off the ice as Graham struggles to learn what truly is “all that counts.”

This novel is subtitled “A Romance,” but in the preface the author explains: “I use the term playfully in one of its several older senses, particularly that of a story of action with a heroic protagonist and a strong love interest. . . . I might cite as a model for my own use of the word the haunting classic of a later period, R. D. Blackmore’s Lorna Doone, which is in fact subtitled A Romance of Exmoor. The present book, then, could be called A Romance of Hampshire.”

The book is set in Antigua and England, 1810-1814. “An epic, a romance, and a mystery, Edmund Persuader is the tale of a man both blessed and cursed by his powers of persuasion. Those powers seem to perform the greatest wonders when they work him ill, yet fail when he needs them most-until he can emerge from the depths of moral error and climb toward the exaltation of redeeming love.”

This cookbook contains great recipes to make hearty warm beef meals which are great to enjoy in the cooler months of the years or anytime of the year.

This cookbook is a collection of beef recipes that my family and I enjoy. Because I believe that cooking should be fun and a time to use your own imagination to create different flavours with foods you will find some unusual twists on old favourites in this cookbook.